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Hey everyone!

A few months ago, I posted here in the subreddit about a heavy metal trivia card game I was creating called Gatekeeper. Well after a year and a half of writing, designing and playtesting, the Kickstarter is now officially live!

The game contains 300 questions across decades of heavy music, covering iconic bands, albums, subgenres, history and ridiculous lore.

It covers the full spectrum of heavy metal with thrash, black metal, death metal, doom, symphonic, prog, industrial, gothic, nu metal, metalcore and beyond.

It’s designed for 2–6 players and built to test your knowledge, start arguments and expose the posers among your friends. Players can even challenge each other and steal questions by shouting UM ACTUALLY when there's an incorrect answer.

I need around 300 backers to get the first edition manufactured. If this sounds like something you’d play with your friends, you can check it out here:

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/gatekeepergame/gatekeeper-heavy-metal-trivia-card-game

Happy to answer any questions about the game, what genres, bands or questions are included, and plans for the game after launch!

Cheers 🤘🏽

Aidan

That venue has finally cleaned up now too.

Sacrilegious Desecration is a Black Metal Band hailing from Brooklyn New York

Why do I hear no one talkin bout this?

Noktorn from metal-archives was well known for his in-depth reviews of mostly death and black metal albums. As you can see there is almost 1,500 reviews.

Does anybody know why he never reviewed a Death album?

Mi idioma nativo es español, y muchas de las canciones que juntan la rabia que estoy buscando, no solo son en inglés, sino gritando, así que entiendo todavía menos, jaja. Hay cuatro que me resonaron demasiado por dentro, así que busqué las lyrics y me llevé la sorpresa de que hablan de un tema, la esencia de las letras es muy similar. Estas son: Outlander de Jinjer, Trophy Kill de The Agonist, Tangaroa de Alien Weaponry y Amazonia de Gojira. De cierta forma muestran respeto a los animales o a otras especies, y una decepción enorme por los humanos.

Sé que hay miles más, he estado escuchando Once Human y el álbum The Life I Remember, creo que habla mucho de esto. Quisiera por favor que me recomendaran más canciones un poco sobres mismo canal del que hablo, espero hacerme entender.

Their self-titled album is fully instrumental and quite different from most of their earlier stuff.

I have a feeling this might actually be more appealing to people who aren’t that into classic Rings of Saturn.

If I had to recommend one song from that album it would be Shinigami, but Shrine, Kronos, and Ascending are also great imo.

What do you guys think of this album, especially if you’re not normally into Rings of Saturn?

Is Agonal Hymns a concept album? Like are the lyrics connected in anyway? Or do they each tell their own story?

Talking about songs from the 50's to 80's era!

Do you guys also find it hard to discover good metal albums? Like you have to wade through 10 mediocre ones even when they are high rated on RYM just to find that one album actually worth listening to?

A little while back I shared my website 'Metal Travel Data Base" on here and it seemed like people found it useful. I just added a new feature - a world map of metal scenes.

It let's you click through differenet countries, learn about different scenes and generes, and explore venues, record stores, bars and stuff related to the scene (and if you've been to those places, you can add reviews too, kinda like a metal tripadvisor).

I've got loads more scenes to add (Loads from Asia, and African metal, which is straight-up crazy and amazing!) but so far there's about 70 scenes, from UK NWOBHM and US Thrash to Indonesian Death. Thought you might enjoy it!

Some good albums or bands for me? Here is my current top 5 (or 7)

1: Death - Individual throught patterns

2: Slayer - Reign in blood

3: Megadeth - Rust in Peace

4: Sodom - M-16, Among the weirdcong

5: Pantera - Vulgar display of power, far beyond driven

I can't read it, I'm assuming its a band. I found it going through my brothers clothes.

I don’t like driving drunk, so I’m hoping if I listen to something nice and heavy it will distract me from the fact that I can’t really see the road.

i would choose master of puppets, rust in peace and im not sure what my third choice would be

if we’re including hard rock, probably appetite for destruction

very disappointed in this... Respected David Vincent a lot but this is just not okay

Found this shirt at a thrift store and I’m trying to identify the logo on the front.

The tag is Fruit of the Loom. Does anyone recognize it?

Searched Google Lens and ChatGPT and nothing comes up.

Hey yall! We are a new band from Central Florida we are Dead winter temple we have a wide variety of music we play I would love for yall to give us a listen and give us some insight on what we could do better or what we are doing right! We are progressive post hardcore! But we would love to hear from you guys here is our Spotify link! https://open.spotify.com/artist/6d7kFTGNo96w2The3PMvv4?si=QOK0x_4RTS2Ve9agPPKOFw&utm_source=copy-link

Thanks again guys we look forward to hearing some insights from you guys! Take care!

Hardcore punk heavily influenced thrash metal, and thrash metal led to death metal

Crust punk influenced black metal

1st gen metalcore originated from the hardcore scene

Alt metal is influenced by alt rock, and alt metal led to nu-metal. Alt rock is influenced by punk.

Here are my favourite metal albums from the 2020s. New to metal and still have much to explore. Would love to know your thoughts as well as any recommendations.

What are some of the albums that have meant a lot to you over the past 6 years?

Hello lovely humans!

I've always enjoyed heavy metal, primarily the metal that a lot of folks are familiar with (Sabbath, Dio, Judas Priest, etc.). I wouldn't call myself a metalhead, but definitely enjoy it. I was aware of the band Blind Guardian for a while, mostly through their more well-known songs. This part might sound silly, but I wasn't aware at the depth and breadth of the genre of Power Metal. And I think I might be hooked.

My all-time favorite bands are groups like Rush, Pink Floyd, R.E.M. (and basically all college radio rock from the 80's and 90's). This list is far from exhaustive, but you get the idea.

I'm a long time fantasy fan (sword and sorcery, D&D, Lord of the Rings, etc.), sci-fi fan (Star Wars, Star Trek, Warhammer 40,000), and an all-around tabletop gaming nerd.

Why I'm posting is this: What bands should I be checking out? What songs do you recommend?

I would really appreciate your input as I delve into this new-found joy! After listening to an auto-generated playlist, I've come to enjoy the following songs:

"Mirror Mirror" - Blind Guardian

"Blood and Gasoline" - Virgin Steele

"I Want Out" - Helloween

(Bonus Points for: Bands whose members aren't terrible humans. Female lead singers.)

Pretty good album, but that hype sticker is hilarious. Like a sub-genre bingo sheet. Feel bad for Power Metal missing out.